Adelstein: Indecency Decisions Go 'Dangerously' Too Far

ADELSTEIN: INDECENCY DECISIONS GO 'DANGEROUSLY' TOO FAR
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable 8/24, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
In an August 20 speech at the Progress & Freedom Foundation summit in Aspen, Federal Communications Commission Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein said he supports stepped-up enforcement of indecency regulations, but he believes that the Commission's majority has gone "dangerously" too far. "I believe that the Commission’s last batch of decisions dangerously expands the scope of indecency and profanity law," he told his audience, "without first attempting to determine whether we are applying the appropriate contemporary community standards." He was preaching to the choir. The foundation is a limited-government group whose president was quick to praise the commissioner for his free-market take on several issues. But part of the danger that Commissioner Adelstein sees is that the FCC could lose its power to regulate content altogether. He was the only Commissioner to dissent in part from the FCC's March 15 release of a raft of indecency decisions.
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* See Commissioner Adelstein's remarks:
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-267047A1.doc